La question de l’alliance entre Isra\u00ebl et les USA est un autre aspect de l’essai de Gabriel Kolko dont nous parlons ci-dessus<\/a>, et c’en est m\u00eame l’aspect principal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLa th\u00e8se implicite de Kolko, \u00e0 laquelle nous souscrivons, est que Isra\u00ebl est manipul\u00e9 par les USA et nullement le contraire, et conduit par cette manipulation \u00e0 une politique contraire \u00e0 ses int\u00e9r\u00eats, aujourd’hui aux limites du supportable. Cette th\u00e8se rencontre le sch\u00e9ma selon lequel la direction isra\u00e9lienne a \u00e9t\u00e9 ces 20 derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es totalement aux mains du complexe militaro-industriel US<\/a>, et particuli\u00e8rement du Pentagone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tSe pla\u00e7ant dans la logique qu’on a indiqu\u00e9e de la fin de la guerre comme instrument utile de la politique, observant que l’Am\u00e9rique n’a aujourd’hui que la guerre comme politique, Kolko en conclut qu’Isra\u00ebl souffre de plus en plus et va \u00eatre peut-\u00eatre pouss\u00e9 \u00e0 choisir une autre voie que son alliance actuelle. Le grand argument est \u00e9videmment que l’actuelle politique isra\u00e9lienne ne conduit qu’\u00e0 une chose : supporter les cons\u00e9quences des erreurs US (\u00abShlomo Ben-Ami, former Foreign Minister,<\/em> [] argued that it is too important for Israel to endorse yet another failure in the U.S. strategy.<\/em>\u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tUn probl\u00e8me tactique-cl\u00e9 o\u00f9 s’exprime ce diff\u00e9rend strat\u00e9gique, c’est la paix avec la Syrie. Les Isra\u00e9liens sont arriv\u00e9s \u00e0 un accord s\u00e9rieux avec les Syriens mais ont d\u00fb l’abandonner, ou le laisser en suspens c’est selon, sous la pression US, et en fait d’un seul homme, le vice-pr\u00e9sident Cheney. La chose est tr\u00e8s moyennement appr\u00e9ci\u00e9e par l’establishment<\/em> isra\u00e9lien. Cette situation est aujourd’hui le nud de la destin\u00e9e d’Isra\u00ebl.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abThese nominally secret talks were made public on January 8, 2007 when Egypt president Hosni Mubarak accused the United States in an interview with an Israeli paper of obstructing peace between Israel and Syria.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbHa’aretz’ Akiva Eldar then published a series of extremely detailed accounts, including the draft accord, confirming that Syria ‘offered a far reaching and equitable peace treaty that would provide for Israel’s security and is comprehensive and divorce Syria from Iran and even create a crucial distance between it and Hezbollah and Hamas. The Bush Administration’s role in scuttling any peace accord was decisive. C. David Welch, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, sat in at the final meeting, and two former senior CIA officials were present in all of these meetings and sent regular reports to Vice President Dick Cheney’s office. The press has been full of details on how the American role was decisive because it has war, not peace, at the top of its agenda.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbMost of the Israeli Establishment favors it. On January 28 important Israelis met publicly in Jaffa and called the Israeli response an irresponsible gamble with the State of Israel since it made Cheney arbiter of Israeli national interests. They included former IDF chief of staff Amnon Lipkin Shahak, former Shin Bet chief Ya’akov Perry, former directors of the Foreign Ministry David Kimche and Alon Liel (who negotiated the deal and believes it is very serious), and the like. Shlomo Ben-Ami, former Foreign Minister, has since supported their position and argued that it is too important for Israel to endorse yet another failure in the U.S. strategy.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbBut Olmert has explicitly said that the Bush Administration opposes a negotiated peace with Syria. Therefore he is opposed to it also. Olmert’s contradiction is that he wants to remain closely allied to the U.S., whatever its policies, yet he is now one of the most unpopular prime ministers in Israel’s history and in power only because of Sharon’s stroke. Israel is a crucial pillar of American policy in the entire region but this policy is failing. An alliance with America is Olmert’s recipe for political defeat when the inevitable election is called. That is his problem.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbIsrael’s power after 1947 was based on its military supremacy over its weaker neighbors. It is in the process of losing it if it has not already. Lesser problems, mainly demographic, will only be aggravated if tension persists. It simply cannot survive allied with the United States, because the Americans will either leave the region or embark on a war that risks Israel’s very existence. It is time for it to become normal’ and make peace with its neighbors, and that will require it to make major concessions. It can do that if it embarks upon an independent foreign policy, and it can start immediately to do so with Syria.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 11 f\u00e9vrier 2007 \u00e0 12H07<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" La question de l’alliance entre Isra\u00ebl et les USA est un autre aspect de l’essai de Gabriel Kolko dont nous parlons ci-dessus, et c’en est m\u00eame l’aspect principal. 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